Weiland Accuses Democrats of Sabotaging His Campaign

South Dakota U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland (D) “accused his own political party of trying to undermine his campaign in a striking news conference Monday,” the Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports.

“Weiland said the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s ads attacking Republican incumbent Mike Rounds have backfired and hurt him… But Weiland went a step further and said this wasn’t just an inadvertent side effect of the negative ads. He said it was deliberate — an attempt to sabotage him and boost independent Larry Pressler.”

Said Weiland: “My national party — that I’m a member of — (was) trying to drive votes to Larry Pressler and trying to drive up my negatives.”